1. Romanticism and Realism

2. Prepare the poems and passage by critically reading them and taking notes. You will be turning in your critical reading notes on these three pieces WITH THE TEST. This is the “take home” portion of the test. Multiple choice, short answer One poem you have never seen

3. Define Romanticism including dates

4. 1780-1830 An artistic movement in literature, music, theatre, and art characterized by a break with rational thinking and rules. Focused on nature, revolution, inspiration, emotions, ideals.

5. What genre was most prominent for Romantic writers?

6. Poetry is most prominent Novels came later: Wuthering Heights, Frankenstein Drama: Goethe’s Faust in Germany and Victor Hugo’s Ruy Blas and Hernani in France

7. William Wordsworth

8. Focus on Nature “The World is Too Much with Us” Response to the Industrial Revolution

9. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

10. Focus on childhood and the fantastic, on dreams and the grotesque Rime of the Ancient Mariner

11. George Gordon, Lord Byron

12. The “bad” boy Reputation was scandalous The “Byronic” hero: moody, alone, rebel

13. Percy Shelley

14. Married to Mary Shelly Political “Ozymandias”

15. John Keats

16. Love and the passions Emotional “Bright Star”

17. Realism

18. Artistic movement in literature and art in response to the excessive emotional and idealism of Romanticism The here and now Focus on contemporary social conditions

19. What genre is most prominent?

20. The novel becomes most prominent: – Charles Dickens – Balzac – Flaubert – Eliot

26. Romanticism: emotional, ideal landscapes, dream worlds Realism: the lower classes, urban life, contemporary life